Mir Nasir Khan II, Khan of Kalat (1840-75), was questioned about the borders of Baluchistan by the British and Afghan envoys at his court.

The author of Khulasatul-Tawarikh, Sujan Rai Batalwi, describes "River Chanab as the eastern border between Baluchistan and Mughal India." Mir Nasir Khan II, Khan of Kalat (1840-75), was questioned about the borders of Baluchistan by the British and Afghan envoys at his court.

The same geographical features which helped to preserve Baluchistan from foreign occupation and established its separate identity also prevented the growth of a central government at Kalat to control the areas over a long distance.

Kalat is admitted to the Bars of the State of New York, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

Kalat is a member of the Corporate International Department.

His major practice area is counseling privately held corporate clients, both domestic and foreign, in corporate transactions, especially contractual matters involving the distribution of goods and agency and distributor issues as well as negotiation and dispute resolution.

Nominally all the provinces and districts of Baluchistan, with the exception of the ceded territory which we call British Baluchistan, are under the khan of Kalat, and all chiefs acknowledge him as their suzerain.

The degree of independence enjoyed by the various districts of Baluchistan may be said to cary in direct proportion to their distance from Quetta.

The Quetta and Pishin plateatu to which it leads is the central dominant water-divide of Baluchistan and the base of the Kandahar highway.

The rourth section includes the valleys formed by the Rakshan and Mashkel, which, sweeping downwards from the Kalat highlands and the Persian border east and west, unite to break through the intervening chain of hills northward to form the Mashkel wamps, and define the northern limits of Makran.

The ancient Dravidians, of whom the Brahui is typical, still exist in many of the districts which are assigned to them in Herodotus.

The old Tajik element of Persia is not so evident in Makran as it is farther north; and the Karak jirates whose depredations led to the invasion of India and the conquest of Sind, seem to have disappeared altogether.

In Balochistan, the elections will be held in fourteen districts which are Kalat, Washak, Lasbella, Jhal Magsi, Quetta city district, Dera Bugti, Qila Abdullah, Chaghi, Kohlu, Loralai, Zhob, Musakhel, Ketch and Panjgur.

The Sindh Government has notified the allocation of additional seats for Minorities in various Union Councils of twelve districts of the province where population of minorities is in excess of ten percent of the total population.

In the Second Phase elections will be held in eighteen districts of Punjab province including Rawalpindi city district, Attock, Chakwal, Jhelum, Mianwali, Bhakkar, Faisalabad city district, Jhang, Toba Tek Singh, Hafizabad, Gujrat, Mandi Bahauddin, Narowal, Lahore city district, Sheikhupura, Nankana, Kasur and Okara.

Kahmard district was moved from Baghlan to Bamian; Jaghatu district moved from Ghazni to Vardak; Gizab, Kijran, and Shahristan districts moved from Oruzgan to Daikondi; Nesh district moved From Oruzgan to Kandahar; Azra district moved from Paktia to Lowgar; and Shamul district moved from Paktia to Khowst.

By 1964, the provinces of Badghis, Baghlan and Pul-i-Khumri, Bamian, Ghorat, Kalat, Kapisa, Konduz, Kunarha, Laghman, Lowgar, Nangarhar, Nimruz, Oruzgan, Paktia, Samangan, Talugan, and Wardak and Maiden had been formed, and Eastern, Kataghan, and Southern had disappeared in the process.

The district is bound on the north by the desert region of Afghanistan (which lies south of the Helmand river), on the east by the Sarlath hilly range and KalatDistrict, on the south by Kharan District and on the west by Iran.

The high-lands comprise the Chagai and Koh-i-Sultan ranges in the north, the Sarlath range in the eastern portion of the district and the Mir-Jawa, Kachau and Ras-Koh hills (the highest mountain in the district) on the south-west border.

The Toba Kakar Range and Chagai hills in the north form the border of Pakistan with Afghanistan.

District Kachi was followed by district Chaghi, Kharan, Kalat, Loralai and finally Killa Saifullah.

Keeping in view this vision IDSP signed an agreement with Aga Khan University on 28th August 2002 for implementing Tawana Pakistan Project in 6 districts of Balochistan Namely; Kachi, Chaghi, Kharan, Kalat, Killa Saifullah and Loralai.

Limited information gathered in the past is available regarding epidemiology of parasitic diseases in the Quetta and Kalat areas and this study was, therefore, conducted to document the available data and see any change in parasitic infection of small ruminants in the area over the last few years.

A study was carried out at Arid Zone Research Centre, Quetta during July, 2001 to January, 2002 to monitor internal parasitic infestation in sheep and goats of Asghara Valley in Ziarat district.

In the district of Shinwar, in Mohmand Dara, Lalpur, Batikot, Kama, Goshta, lower Kunar and Chapohar.

In Pakistan they live in the Mohmand Agency, whose four directions are the following: to the west Afghanistan, to the South the Khyber Agency, to the west the Peshawar district and to the north is has a frontier to the Bajaurr Agency.

Furthermore some Mohmand live in Herat province in district Angil, and in the province of Ghazni.

Quetta Division consists of the districts of Quetta, Pishin, Chagai, Loralai Division of Zhob and Loralai District; Sibi Division of the districts of Sibi and the agencies of Kohlu and Dera Bugti; Kalat Division, of the districts of Kalat, Khuzdar, Kharan and Lasbela; Makran Division, of the districts of Turbat, Panjgur and Gwadar.

Akbar Bugti, tribal chief of the Bugtis, claims the action is an attempt to loosen his tribal hold over the region.

The Kalpars, a splinter group within the Bugti tribe, were removed from the town of Sui after their three year-feud became increasingly violent and endangered the nearby gas field.

On 8 July 1948, when the news of the Prince’s arrival reached Kalat, the Prime Minister, Mr.Fell, accompanied by a Kalat State Force, went to meet the Prince at Earboi to deliver the Khan’s message.

The (A Pashto term for a decision making assembly of male elders) Jirga was instructed to study the circumstances and events which led to the revolt and was asked to give its recommendations to the District Magistrate.

However, The Khan was not an absolute monarch; he was required to act under the provisions of the Rawaj (the Baloch constitution).

The Khanate forces were defeated and the Afghan forces marched towards Kalat, the capital of Baloch state, destroying the settlements in the present district of Mastung by adopting a scorch earth policy.

It is amazing that during the pitched battles fought between the forces led by Ahmed Shah personally and the outnumbered forces of Khanate of Kalat, the warriors from both sides used to pray at the same time, to the same direction and according to the guidelines of the same Islamic sect.

Mohamed bin Qasim and rulers of Ghazna dynasty in Afghanistan are being portrayed as model Muslim rulers.

QUETTA: Three alleged terrorists were killed and a policeman was seriously injured in an encounter in Kalatdistrict, some 160 kilometres from the provincial capital, on Sunday.

On the directives of IG Police Dr Shoaib Suddle, a joint police team of Quetta and Kalat raided a house to apprehend members of a terrorist group sponsored by Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).

QUETTA: Police claimed to have unearthed a terrorist gang sponsored by Indian intelligence agency --Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) -- and seized a huge quantity of arms and ammunition, including 107 mm rockets, Klashnikovs and rocket launcher etc, in a raid conducted in Killi Faizababad, outskirts of the provincial capital, here on Thursday.

It has fertile land like that of Nasirabad, as well as, tracks' which are thirsty for centuries, and where even a bush could hardly be sighted like that of Pat section of Sibi District and Dasht-e-Makran in Makran Division.

Baluchistan has hottest places in the country like Sibi and Dhadar, where temperature shoots up to over 120 °F, as well as coldest towns like Quetta, Kalat, Ziarat, Kan Mehtarzai where mercury falls down much below freezing point.

Baluchistan has places with lofty and rugged mountains under Chiltan, Takatu, Sulaiman, Sultan etc. and plains stretching to hundreds of miles.

Although it is generally understood that the right of sovereignty in Gawadar was transferred by the Khans of Kalat to Maskat in perpetuity, the Khans and natives of Gawadar have always denounced this perception.

In 1958, Gawadar and its surroundings area were reverted back from Maskat to Pakistan and were made a tehsil of Makran district.

These rulers are said to be connected with the rulers of Maskat and were called Buledais with reference to the valley of Buleda, where they resided.

The worst-affected regions are Chaghi, Kalat, Killa Saifullah and Aranji in the Khuzdar district of Balochistan, but the drought has also taken its toll in and around deserts of Thar in Sindh and Cholistan in Punjab.

Much of the country has received very low rainfall since 1998 and this situation has been exacerbated, particularly in the customarily rain-fed areas, by an unusually dry period which commenced in November 1999 and has continued up to the present.

In all, around 2.4 million people have been affected; 1.1 million and 1.3 million, in Balochistan and Sindh respectively.

Mohammad Bin Qasim conquered Sindh in the 7th century and introduced Islam in South Asia.On 3rd February 1839, the British captured the village and three years later, annexed it into British Empire as the district of Karachi.

After a while, this settlement was taken over by the Khan of Kalat who constructed a small fort in the area.

The British, who realized its potential as a port city for the produce of the Indus Valley, developed it into a commercial trading center.

In May 1879, a treaty was signed by Afghans and Britain which forced Afghanistan to accept Britain's control of its foreign affairs and to cede the British various frontier areas, including the district Pishin, Sibi, Harnai, and Thal Chotiali.

In 1876 Sandeman concluded a treaty with Khan of Kalat that brought his territories - including Kharan, Makran, and Las Bela - under British suzerainty.

Kashmir was transferred by sale in the Treaty of Amritsar in 1850 to the Dogrra Dynasty, which ruled the area under British paramountcy until 1947.